Doom Patrol: Butt Patrol
December 8, 2022 6:50 PM - Season 4, Episode 2 - Subscribe
Our heroes hatch a plan to present this week's terrifying future, but it involves a radical change to the team.
Ok, so that was neato - a gag on an "enriched environment" for the butt colony.
I'm of two minds of Rita's disavowal of heels.
Someone on the writing staff must have liked 'Alien: Resurrection' at least a little bit, "They're beautiful."
Been digging Fraser's Cliff since day one. This arc is well done by me.
posted by porpoise at 9:51 PM on December 9, 2022
I'm of two minds of Rita's disavowal of heels.
Someone on the writing staff must have liked 'Alien: Resurrection' at least a little bit, "They're beautiful."
Been digging Fraser's Cliff since day one. This arc is well done by me.
posted by porpoise at 9:51 PM on December 9, 2022
Yeah, I'm hoping they manage to find the right balance between story and soul searching this season. I mean, I like the soul searching, and it's probably useful to get some of those concepts out there for people, but the last couple of seasons occasionally got a little too far up their own navels for their own good?
And I can't remember where the zombie side of things came from - the brief dead boy detectives episode? I think I've hit DC crossover saturation, and I can't keep my stories straight any more.
posted by Kyol at 7:29 AM on December 15, 2022
And I can't remember where the zombie side of things came from - the brief dead boy detectives episode? I think I've hit DC crossover saturation, and I can't keep my stories straight any more.
posted by Kyol at 7:29 AM on December 15, 2022
I'm glad it's not just me. It took me a while to try to pull the pieces together, and even then, while I have the broad strokes (zombies and butts), I couldn't remember the name of the farmer zombie or where he fit in to save my life. This is one of those times a "previously" or an "editor's note" would have been appreciated.
posted by sardonyx at 8:41 PM on December 18, 2022
posted by sardonyx at 8:41 PM on December 18, 2022
W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless suggested in a 2004 interview that Gore's crusade against the band (and explicit metal and rap lyrics as a whole) began when she discovered her son rocking out to "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)," but to be honest, it's very hard for me to imagine the scion of two such deeply lame, albeit well-intentioned, individuals doing any such thing.
Given my very strong feelings about the PMRC and the bullshit they tried to pull in the 80s, I don't grant Tipper Gore much in the way of good intentions -- or Al either, at least on this issue.
That said, Al Gore said on record during the PMRC hearings that he was a big Frank Zappa fan, as a preface to the committee's questions to Frank after his testimony, although maybe it was before Frank spoke, don't remember the exact order of events. Anyways, Al is a dweeb, but at least he has/had an adventurous taste in music, and maybe that rubbed off on Gore Jr.
posted by Saxon Kane at 11:26 AM on January 3, 2023
Given my very strong feelings about the PMRC and the bullshit they tried to pull in the 80s, I don't grant Tipper Gore much in the way of good intentions -- or Al either, at least on this issue.
That said, Al Gore said on record during the PMRC hearings that he was a big Frank Zappa fan, as a preface to the committee's questions to Frank after his testimony, although maybe it was before Frank spoke, don't remember the exact order of events. Anyways, Al is a dweeb, but at least he has/had an adventurous taste in music, and maybe that rubbed off on Gore Jr.
posted by Saxon Kane at 11:26 AM on January 3, 2023
Shipoopi!
posted by Pronoiac at 4:57 PM on January 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Pronoiac at 4:57 PM on January 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
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*The song at the top of the premiere is "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)," a classic standard by raunch metal band W.A.S.P. (We Are Sexually Perverted). Per Wikipedia, "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)" was originally intended as a track on W.A.S.P.'s 1984 debut album, but it was deemed "too controversial" and dropped (it was later released as a single, and the track was eventually added to reissues of the album). W.A.S.P. is probably best known for incurring the wrath of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), a censorship advocation group spearheaded by Tipper Gore, wife of then-Senator Al Gore. W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless suggested in a 2004 interview that Gore's crusade against the band (and explicit metal and rap lyrics as a whole) began when she discovered her son rocking out to "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)," but to be honest, it's very hard for me to imagine the scion of two such deeply lame, albeit well-intentioned, individuals doing any such thing. Regardless, forty years later, the song that may have launched a thousand record burnings is here, in a TV show about superheroes fighting a man with a giant metal dick, and the world just keeps on turning like nothing happened at all.
*The "Immortus" Willoughby Kipling learns of is almost certainly General Immortus, an archenemy of the Doom Patrol who first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963). Comics characters on this show tend to be pretty far afield of their comic book antecedents, so speculation is probably kind of pointless.
*"Agents Wolfman and Perez": Writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez created Cyborg, and debuted him in DC Comics Presents #26 (October 1980) -- and not, as one might suppose, in New Teen Titans #1, which followed a little later. This is an especially nice tribute since George Perez, a wonderful artist who by all accounts endeared himself to everyone he ever met, passed away this May, just 67.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 7:20 PM on December 8, 2022 [1 favorite]